still with us is our panel, dave while withal, chris kofinis and robert litan what do you think of theeal to the gop to agree in part and worry about the rest later? >> it is what he needs to dologically, if washington worked on logic, it would make a lot of sense. republicans support keeping these tax cuts. these are george bush's tax cuts. the ones that would most popular in 2001, 2003 when he passed these in the first place. it is true, if republicans didn't want to run on -- against the biggest tax increase in american history, as they call it they would go ahead and do this. i don't know -- i don't know if things like this provide momentum anymore. i'm not sure if george voinovich is gettable on this bill. he has been on the past but he also was a critic of the size of these tax cuts in the first place. he might be gettable but i think he needs to do more working the phones than aggressive talking in front of the cameras, meaning he just needs to talk about it. >> here we are. chris, your -- the political strategy, your interpretations of the political strategy, the witness of the